A Statement in Response to the Ugandan 'Anti-Homosexuality' Bill

As a Global LGBT+ Christian Charity, we at OneBodyOneFaith are deeply concerned by the extremely disturbing news that on Tuesday 21st March 2023, the Ugandan Parliament introduced an ‘Anti-Homosexuality’ bill which criminalises anyone who identifies as LGBT+ with imprisonment and even the death penalty. The Bill also creates the offence of 'attempted homosexuality', punishable with up to 10 years in jail. Such legislation increases the vulnerability of LGBT+ Ugandans whose lives are already at risk, and further it encourages a life-threatening environment entirely on the basis of suspicion, fear and a misuse of power.

Sharing the concerns of Amnesty International, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and all those calling for the rejection of this bill by the President of Uganda, we stand in complete solidarity with LGBT+ Ugandans and their ally’s. We call, strongly, upon the Christian leaders in Uganda to stand against this heinous new law, and to speak up for the inherent dignity and worth of every human life. We do not see this new law as in any way compatible with the Christian gospel in which Jesus Christ speaks of radically inclusive love and grace, and whom God sent so that all people, particularly the marginalised, would have life in all its fullness.